The Average Salary You Need To Buy A Home In 27 Cities

Trending News: Here's How Much Money You Really Need To Buy A Home

Why Is This Important?

Because this will help you decide where to buy.

Long Story Short

A list of the salaries you need to buy in 27 metros across the country has been released, and while the most expensive city shouldn't come as a surprise, (cough, San Fran, cough) some other cities on the list aren't as expensive as you might've thought. Where does your city lie?

Long Story

If you have the means, buying is always better than renting — but how much dough are we talking here?

HSH.com compiled a list of how much you need to make to afford a house in 27 cities across the U.S. (as seen on CNN Money), and some of the results are surprising, while others, are probably what you'd expect.

If you're hovering around the average income in the U.S., $51,939, according to the 2014 Census, sorry, but you won't be able to afford to buy in San Francisco. To live there you need to make about three times that, at $144,196.

Sadly, if you want to live in San Fran, you'd need to dish out over $3,600 to rent a single bedroom, and you can't even stay in a box, because that's been outlawed.

Forget San Fran, it's overrated anyway. There's a solid 15 other places on HSH's list that go for under that 2014 average salary. Those include (from most expensive down to least), Dallas, Baltimore, Houston, Philly, Minneapolis, Orlando, San Antonio, Phoenix, Tampa, Atlanta, Detroit, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland and the home of the Pirates, Pittsburgh, where you'd need $29,481 to safely hit the price of $688 per month.

Steel City not gonna do it for you and got more to spend? Feeling something more hustle and bustle? Maybe some California sunshine? For those earning over $57k you can afford to live in (going up in price this time), Chicago, Sacramento (one of 4 Cali cities), Miami, Portland, Denver, Washington, Seattle, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego and yes, that place where techies munch Mission-style burritos as they walk their dogs beside the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco.